- Band Name: H.I.M.
- Record Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
- Release Date: Feb 9, 2010
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70This is a solid album, rife with brooding love metal and big choruses, but while this is HIM's most accessible album to date it's also the most unpalatable, as Ville takes one step too many towards self-satire.
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A mixed bag, but an appealingly bold one.
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When the band are a little more concrete and less spooky, the results are especially compelling, but Screamworks is ultimately successful in its blending of melody and muscle. [Mar 2010, p.90]
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If I lived completely under a rock, I'd say Screamworks, and HIM in general, would hit Twilight tweeners straight in the heart with its dark, dismal and dire themes, but the more mature crowd would see the excessive sentimentality as almost self-parodying.
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The material sits within the band's canon well enough to please longtime fans, and listeners looking for some kind of middle ground between Evanescence, late-period Queensr˙che and Fall Out Boy will more than likely find a few wicked gems to hang their heads to.
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60Old-school romantic Ville Valo croons as often as he screams, so that even when aiming for the stylistic median, a bit of local weirdness oozes forth to make Screamworks more interesting than it's designed to be.
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40While his lyrics are lascivious to a point, songs such as "Love," "The Hardest Way" and "Heartkiller" are strictly soft-focus, with any semblance of attitude--or actual sex--air-brushed into radio-friendly oblivion. [Mar 2010, p.102]
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IgorS.10Very good album.